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...carefully at the handiwork of 350 U. S. artists. To assemble a central gallery of decorative arts, smart San Franciscan Dorothy Liebes whizzed through Europe last summer visiting ateliers from dawn to dusk, enlisted such distinguished U. S. and European designers as Richard Neutra, Miës van der Rohe. A glowing fulfillment of the fair's "Pacific" theme were seven rooms of treasured art and craftsmanship hand-picked by Harvard's expert, twitchy-browed Orientalist Langdon Warner-from China, Japan, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Northwest America, South America, Central America...
Leathery, massy, meditative Mies van der Rohe is famed in Europe...
...professor in Harvard's architectural department, last year in the opening of Chicago's New Bauhaus. This week it appeared again when 33-year-old President Henry Townley Heald of Chicago's Armour Institute announced that his tough technical school had hired Ludwig Mies van der Rohe of Berlin to direct its school of architecture...
...beautiful house, at Brno, Czechoslovakia. He was Director of the Dessau Bauhaus from 1930 to 1933. On his first visit to the U. S. last year, his friend John Augur Holabird of the esteemed Chicago firm of Holabird & Root interested Mies van der Rohe in Chicago, the Armour Institute in Mies van der Rohe...
With Architect van der Rohe at Armour this month will be two other old Bauhaus men, Ludwig Hilberseimer, expert on city planning, and Walter Peterhans, technician in photography. Under this triumvirate Armour students will tackle a trivium: materials, functions, design. As to what is expected of them: "[This educational method] would serve no purpose," says Mies van der Rohe, "unless ... it were to lead without fail to a clear and un equivocal spiritual orientation...